anyone have a good burger recipe? Looking for something new...

I always make my own burgers, but i'm looking for new ideas for today.... considering its new years eve and the tigers are playing. More or less looking for a meat mixture or something along those lines...

re: anyone have a good burger recipe? Looking for something new...(Posted by Gris Gris on 12/31/12 at 1:50 pm to HebertFest08)

I also keep it simple with the meat. Too much seasoning results in having to overwork the meat. You could stuff the inside of the burger by making thinner patties and gently molding them together. You could change topping options.

re: anyone have a good burger recipe? Looking for something new...(Posted by HebertFest08 on 12/31/12 at 2:05 pm to Gris Gris)

I did some thinking..... have some fresh andouille from the best stop that my parents brought to me this weekend. Going to grind that up and add it to the chuck. I've done the lamb burgers and with some pork they kick ass.... also have some veal sausage...... that could be interesting...

re: anyone have a good burger recipe? Looking for something new...(Posted by Btrtigerfan on 12/31/12 at 2:56 pm to HebertFest08)

A lot of good ideas in here already. If you are making all beef burgers, I like to broil mine in the oven sometimes. I put them on the broiler pan that catches the drippings. There is no conductive or convective heat. Just the radiant heat from the very hot broiler. You can do each side independently and keep the center as cool or pink as you want. It smokes a lot, and you don't get to play with fire outside like our Neanderthal ancestors so I don't do it often. It also plumps them up like a ballpark weiner. Not sure if I would risk it with lamb or pork.

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re: anyone have a good burger recipe? Looking for something new...(Posted by MeridianDog on 12/31/12 at 5:58 pm to Gris Gris)

Only just noticed what I did.

Heinz

My youngest son would kill me. He lives about a mile from Heinz Field in Pittsburgh. The old ketchup factories are down the hill from his house, complete with old brick smokestacks that have Heinz built into the stack brickwork.

Big Duh on my part I guess.

Likely not the dumbest thing I did today. I got that going for me I guess.

We used Delmonte ketchup when I was a kid and I converted to Hunts when I got married so I haven't used much of anything with a Heinz label in years.

re: anyone have a good burger recipe? Looking for something new...(Posted by dallastiger55 on 12/31/12 at 6:05 pm to MeridianDog)

My bro in law is a chef and made burgers for us at his house and they were the best burgers I've ever eaten.

He mixed ground chuck, sausage(75/25 ratio of beef), chopped poblano pepper and made small thin patties. He put one patty down, then a handful of shredded cheddar jack, then a second thin patty on top and presses the outsides of the two patties together. Seasons outside with salt and pepper and that's it

re: anyone have a good burger recipe? Looking for something new...(Posted by HebertFest08 on 12/31/12 at 9:29 pm to dallastiger55)

I ended up grounding andouille sausage with some frozen onions/peppers to add some moisture.... seasoned, had to add some panko and a egg b/c the meat was real fresh and wouldn't hold together at all.... put them on the weber kettle on top of some grill grates and they came out great.